2 Hours later.
The credits roll and I look over at Sam and Erica- she is asleep on his chest and he is half asleep too. I get up and the girls start going downstairs. Damian and Lindsay play with Alfie and Laura goes with them downstairs and I look back over at them. His eyes flutter open gently and he smiles while rubbing his eye. "Hey." I smile. "Hey." I say and he looks at Erica and laughs. "I must be comfy." I nod. "You probably are." I say and he laughs. "Here, I'll take her into my aunts room so that she can have a proper nap." He nods and I lift her off his chest. I carry her into my aunts room and lie her down in the bed and walk back out to see him fixing his hair in Laura's mirror. "Who you trying to impress?" I ask and he laughs. "Who ever wants to be impressed." He says with a wink and we go downstairs. Damian glances out the window and smiles.

"That's my mum's car!" He says and gets up. I look over at Laura and she nods. I walk over to her and smile. "What's going on?" I ask. She shrugs. "Nothing." I nod. "They're together, aren't they?" I ask and she shrugs. "I don't know, I don't think so." I nod and my Aunt smiles. "You going to go down and see them then Damian?" She asks and he nods. "yeah!" I laugh and we get up and walk out. "Bye Bam." Alfie says and I laugh. "Thanks Alfie." I say and we walk down the road and towards my house. I look back up at Daniel's house and Samuel looks at me. "You want to go see him?" He asks and I shrug. "Maybe." I say back and he nods and puts his hands in his pockets while we walk on down.

We walk in through the front door and talk to Damian's parents. "Hey!" I say and they hug me. "Hows he copin' ?" His mum asks and I nod. "Doin' great Mrs McGinty." I say and she smiles. I get a text and look at it.

FROM: Cameron.
Hows It Going In The Green Country? Cam.

I laugh and show it to them.

I smile and text him back.

TO: Cameron
Goin Great, Although Vulnerability Is Being Shown Here tonight, So We Have To Watch It Again, That Sucks. But I Think We're All Over It. Hope You And Macy Are Doing Good! Nicola.x

"It's starting guys!" Dad says and I look at them and we follow him out the back. We look around; The place is full of our relatives and friends. That's when I see them. Who? Oh, Y'know, Just my ex-boyfriend Daniel all happy with my cousin in law Karla. I sit at a table near the front with Samuel, Damian and Lindsay. I sit across from Samuel and as it gets to the part about our vulnerabilities. I look at the ground and someone kicks me in the foot. I look up and at Samuel. He winks and I half smile. They show mine first and everybody stays silent. I feel eyes on me and a hand reaches across the bottom of my thigh and grabs my hand. I look up and at Samuel. He nods and I shake my head. I look up at the screen with glazed over eyes and when they move on to Matheus I grab my phone.

TO: Samuel.
I Can't Do This.

I say and his bleeps. He texts me back and I look at it.

FROM: Samuel
Course You Can. I'm Here.

I half smile and text him back.

TO: Samuel.
This Time, I Don't Think That's Enough.

I say and let go of his hand. It cuts to a break after Damian's and I stand up and walk off. I walk off and people keep saying how proud they are of me. I weave my way through the crowd of people. (People have crashed the little showing party) and I feel someone grab me. I turn around and look at Sam. I take his hand off me and shrug. "It's too much Sam." I say and he shakes his head. "I'm here." I nod. "I know." I say and keep walking. Somebody grabs my hand as I turn back around. "I'm here." He says again and looks back at the screen. "It's starting again." He says and we walk back around. We walk back around and sit down. We watch Lindsay and Samuel's confessions and we all look upset. I put my hand on Lindsay's shoulders and she rests her head on mine. When it gets to the video I sit up and watch it. Samuel's part actually makes me want to cry even more. It is a really amazing video.

When the episode ends we all half smile and Damian's and my parents get up and stand in front of the screen.

"I think we can all agree that that was an amazing video. And that we are all supporting all of you..." She says and we smile.

When they finish talking we start walking around and I walk over to my grandparents. I hug them and sit talking. I get up and look for them. I see them sitting with two others so I walk over and wave. "Hey." I say and look at who they are sitting with. "Hey." Samuel says with a smile and I look at the other two. "I'm actually going to go and-" I say but get interrupted. "It's ok Nicola." I look back over and then at Lindsay. "I never caught your names." Samuel says and I half laugh. "This is Daniel, and this is Karla." I say and their mouths drop. "Hey cuz!" She says and I roll my eyes. "Yeah, so who wants a glass of wine?" I ask and Lindsay nods. "Beer?" I ask Samuel and he nods. "yeah, thanks." and Damian nods too. I get up with Lindsay and Karla walks with us. "I hope things aren't awkward." Karla says and I nod. "Why would it be? It's just here cousin and her ex-boyfriend dating." Lindsay says while pouring herself a glass of wine and passing the bottle to me. "Yeah, I mean, there is better guys out there." I say and she shrugs. "Oh, and better friends too." I add in and give a beer to Lindsay for Damian and grab one for Samuel. We walk back over and I pass the beer to Samuel.

"Thanks." I smile and sip on my wine. "Hey Bitch." I hear a voice say and spin around and see all the old crew. "Wow. looks like someone woke the undead." Lindsay says and I loook at her. "Behave." I say and nod. "Hey." I say and they just give me dirty looks. "Daniel, call off the cavlry." I say and Samuel raises his eyebrows. "This is the people you used to hang out with?" He asks and I nod.l "That was a hell of a long time ago." Rachel says and I nod. "Damn straight." I say with a smile. "Well thank god Robert and Nikki picked you." he says and takes a drink of beer. They smile. "we're going moshing tonight, you're free to join us." I nod. "Yeah, i'll think i'll do without." I say and take another sip of wine. "You think you're better than us because you have these new friends from LA and you're sitting drinking wine?" One of them shouts and I laugh. I stand up. "When's the last time you talked to Ciara?" Another shouts and I nod. "I'm going to see her on Wednesday." I say and smile. "I might have friends from LA, but i'm still me." I say with a smile and they look at me. "Then why haven't you got your septum or nose studs in? Or your lip piercings?" One asks. "Or your continous band t-shirts. And what about the semi-permanent black hair dye?" I smile. "It's all just a mask. It means nothing. We're just covering everything up."

I say and they nod. "When you're done playing Disney, you know where we are." They say with a sigh and walk away. "You're still the leader of the pack?" I ask and he nods. "Yep." He says with a smile. "I thought you were gonna quit?" He shrugs. "Hard to quit when you have a broken heart." He says and I get up, I spot Mrs O'Driscoll and walk over to her.

"Hey." I say and she smiles. "Hello Nicola." I smile awkwardly and she nods. "Can I, come over on thursday? I'm ready." She nods. "Of course." She smiles and Samuel walks over. "Hey." I smile. "Hi." I say back and he nods over at Daniel and Karla. "They want to talk to you." I shrug. "I don't want to talk to them." I say back and go to walk away. "They want another chance." I laugh. "Sam, if your ex-girlfriend came into your life right now, would you give her another chance?" He nods. "Fair point." I nod and grab a beer. I unscrew the lid and he nods. "You wanna dance?" He asks and I shrug. "Why not?" I say and smile. I take a gulp of beer and we walk into the middle of the grass and dance.


We get changed for bed and I say goodnight to everyone. Lindsay gets in beside me and we go to sleep.


We wake up and get breakfast. "What's the plan today kids?" Mum asks and we shrug and Samuel gets a text. "Mmhm." He says and looks at us. "We are going on some show tonight- The One Show?" I nod. "Yeah." I say and finish my toast. "What time do we go on?" Damian asks and Samuel reads out the text.

"Hey kids, hope you all arrived home safe and are enjoying yourselves. You are going on The One Show tonight at 7pm, live, so you have to be at the studio for 6pm. You will be performing 'Like A Prayer' By Madonna. We are leaving this in your hands. Don't screw it up. Robert."

We nod. "This is one of the most known songs glee has done!" Lindsay says and I nod. "Yeah. We can NOT screw this up!" I say and we go on to our phones and find the words. "Ok guys, lets get to work." Damian says and we sit down with paper and start writing out parts for us all to learn.


When we get it all sorted, we turn on the TV to the news.

Last night, The Glee Project hopefuls; Damian McGinty Jr. And Nicola McDowney came back to Nicola's hometown along with Samuel Larsen and Lindsay Pearce, two others of the final 9 who all hope to win a part on the worldwide phenomenon that is Glee. See all four of them tonight on The One Show, Live at 7pm.

I laugh and we go into the sitting room to practice.